‘Top kill’ stops oil leak says US Admiral...(Maybe?)

"27/05/2010 - 18:29:30
Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35km) from
the leaking wellhead north-east towards Mobile Bay, Alabama.

The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science’s Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea
plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.

The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300ft (1,000m), and is more than 6 miles (9.6km) wide, said David Hollander,
associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school."

I cant believe they waited so long to try different methods. Red Tape? Financial conspiracy? Catalyst for war? Or a population control
conspiracy.........
But worst in history?
I think that the US may be adding to the collection because i think that if its gospel that they are expectiong an increase of hurricanes and
tornados, then imagine the devastation when oil and the dispersants are thrown into the equation? Everything is effected. Literally.
People will die here because when i say everything thats everything that is essential to all life is effected
I came across this link, different disaster but could the outcome be the same? www.independent.co.uk...

"27/05/2010 - 18:29:30
Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles (35km) from
the leaking wellhead north-east towards Mobile Bay, Alabama.

....

The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300ft (1,000m), and is more than 6 miles (9.6km) wide, said David Hollander,
associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school."

I just read about this, will someone tell me what it means, I am not sure I understand.

Sounds like they need to send that ship with the Siphon hose over to the plume and start sucking up the oil. With satellite imaging they ought to be
able to stay on the plume and suck up as much as they can before it hits the shore.

1) They have over 80,000 barrels of this drilling 'mud' on site, with the ability to get more. This is spread over 3-4 ships according to the BP
technical report.

2) They are pumping this mud in at several times the pressure of the well, and they cannot stop until there is no oil that can seep through. So no,
your analogy with the garden hose is incorrect. They are not trying to simply push this stuff into the hole. They are attaching a fire hose to your
garden hose and pumping the stuff in.

3) The flow coming out of the top WILL NOT CHANGE until they stop pumping the mud (which has not stopped AT ALL), think of it like this:

You have a straw facing up and down. You are injecting this substance into the side of the straw (not the top) at an angle facing down. You are now
pumping this mud into the hole, and as you are pumping it in the mud is going mostly down, but some of it will go up, simply due to the pressure of
the oil and the way it is being pumped in.

"BP had to halt its ambitious effort to plug its stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon when engineers saw that too much of
the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping along with the leaking crude oil."

"A technician at the BP command center said that pumping of the fluid had to be stopped temporarily while engineers were revising their plans, and
that the company hoped to resume pumping by midnight, if federal officials approved."

"The technician, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, said the problem was not seen as serious.
'We’re still quite optimistic,' he said, but cautioned: 'It is not assured and its not a done deal yet. All of this will require some
time.'"

I am watching it live right now on channel KY 3 and it is still going just as fast as yesterday it seems to me. It must have broke back loose from
betweem 11:00 am this morning. The live link says 16-15-38-(which is 4:15ct and 27-05-10...Go check it it out. here is the
link....www.ky3.com...

Off topic: Has anyone seen anything talking about whether or not the flow rate of the well would be variable? I know they've had different results
each day using their Insertion Tool 'straw', but would that have to do with what they were doing or from the well output??

On topic:

Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
For those of you concerned that the Top Kill won't work, over in the SOLUTIONS thread
we've come up with a better set of method than 'junk shot' mud. Basically feed and twist up metal wire into wherever it can be fed in, from above
the BOP, while replacing the 'junk' with rare earth magnets and teflon, with large high power magnets on the outside of the BOP outlet. Then feeding
in epoxy paste behind all that mess.

Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - 27 May
"Top kill" operations continued over the night and are ongoing. There are no significant events to report at this time. BP will provide updates on
progress as appropriate.

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